For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating has risen sharply in the U.S. Over 25 years, it has grown from a rare practice ...

TORONTO — A Toronto hospital says it transplanted a heart that stopped beating last month in a Canadian first that has the potential to substantially shorten the long wait for a donor. University ...

Wed, May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC In the U.S. alone, nearly 3,800 people are on the waiting list for heart transplant, but as Yale Medicine notes, demand for healthy hearts currently outstrips supply ...